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“Being understood takes precedence over being loved. If you’re loved without being understood, then you have to live in fear; the fear that one day your lover will come to understand you and then not love you any more. But if you’re understood first, if your lover knows and accepts who you really are, then it is truly you who is being loved, and you can love and be loved without fear.”
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“Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.”
― Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
― Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
“Life is will-to-live, will is a lack, lack is pain, all life is pain.”
― La melodia del giovane divino: Pensieri, racconti, critiche
― La melodia del giovane divino: Pensieri, racconti, critiche
“I am true only as I see and understand myself deep within; I am what I am for myself and in myself, and nothing else.”
― At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities
― At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities
“A man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something that he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbour with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he is happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.”
― Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
― Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
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